The Press: Sedition on the Copy Desk

On the news desk of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Carl Braden, 40, was
a quiet, efficient copyreader whose work in the office never gave his
employers any cause for complaint. But his work outside the office was
another matter. Braden, a veteran newsman and former labor reporter for
the Courier-Journal's afternoon sister, the Times, devoted most of his
spare time to Communist causes. He gathered signatures for the phony
Communist Stockholm "Peace Petition," helped direct strikes for the
Red-led Farm Equipment Workers Union, wrote stories that ran in the
Communist Daily Worker.